Search for new physics using QUAERO: a general interface to D0 event data.

Phys Rev Lett 87:23 (2001) 231801

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, A Abdesselam, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, SN Ahmed, GD Alexeev, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, Y Arnoud, MM Baarmand, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, M Begel, A Belyaev, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, A Besson, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, G Blazey, S Blessing, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, K Bos, A Brandt, R Breedon, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, F Canelli, W Carvalho, D Casey, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, J Cochran, L Coney, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, S Crépé-Renaudin, MA Cummings, D Cutts, GA Davis, K Davis, K De, SJ de Jong, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G Di Loreto, S Doulas, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, S Duensing, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Duperrin, A Dyshkant, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, J Estrada, H Evans, VN Evdokimov, T Fahland, S Feher, D Fein, T Ferbel, F Filthaut, HE Fisk, Y Fisyak, E Flattum, F Fleuret, M Fortner, H Fox, KC Frame, S Fu, S Fuess, E Gallas, AN Galyaev, M Gao, V Gavrilov, RJ Genik, K Genser, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, R Gilmartin, G Ginther, B Gómez, G Gómez, PI Goncharov, JL González Solís, H Gordon, LT Goss, K Gounder, A Goussiou, N Graf, G Graham, PD Grannis, JA Green, H Greenlee, S Grinstein, L Groer, S Grünendahl, A Gupta, SN Gurzhiev, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, NJ Hadley, H Haggerty, S Hagopian, V Hagopian, RE Hall, P Hanlet, S Hansen, JM Hauptman, C Hays, C Hebert, D Hedin, JM Heinmiller, AP Heinson, U Heintz, T Heuring, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, Y Huang, R Illingworth, AS Ito, M Jaffré, S Jain, R Jesik, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, M Jones, H Jöstlein, A Juste, W Kahl, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, AM Kalinin, D Karmanov, D Karmgard, Z Ke, R Kehoe, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, SK Kim, B Klima, B Knuteson, W Ko, JM Kohli, AV Kostritskiy, J Kotcher, B Kothari, AV Kotwal, AV Kozelov, EA Kozlovsky, J Krane, MR Krishnaswamy, P Krivkova, S Krzywdzinski, M Kubantsev, S Kuleshov, Y Kulik, S Kunori, A Kupco, VE Kuznetsov, G Landsberg, WM Lee, A Leflat, C Leggett, F Lehner, J Li, QZ Li, X Li, JG Lima, D Lincoln, SL Linn, J Linnemann, R Lipton, A Lucotte, L Lueking, C Lundstedt, C Luo, AK Maciel, RJ Madaras, VL Malyshev, V Manankov, HS Mao, T Marshall, MI Martin, RD Martin, KM Mauritz, B May, AA Mayorov, R McCarthy, T McMahon, HL Melanson, M Merkin, KW Merritt, C Miao, H Miettinen, D Mihalcea, CS Mishra, N Mokhov, NK Mondal, HE Montgomery, RW Moore, M Mostafa, H da Motta, E Nagy, F Nang, M Narain, VS Narasimham, HA Neal, JP Negret, S Negroni, T Nunnemann, D O'Neil, V Oguri, B Olivier, N Oshima, P Padley, LJ Pan, K Papageorgiou, A Para, N Parashar, R Partridge, N Parua, M Paterno, A Patwa, B Pawlik, J Perkins, M Peters, O Peters, P Pétroff, R Piegaia, BG Pope, E Popkov, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, J Qian, R Raja, S Rajagopalan, E Ramberg, PA Rapidis, NW Reay, S Reucroft, M Ridel, M Rijssenbeek, F Rizatdinova, T Rockwell, M Roco, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, J Rutherfoord, BM Sabirov, G Sajot, A Santoro, L Sawyer, RD Schamberger, H Schellman, A Schwartzman, N Sen, E Shabalina, RK Shivpuri, D Shpakov, M Shupe, RA Sidwell, V Simak, H Singh, JB Singh, V Sirotenko, P Slattery, E Smith, RP Smith, R Snihur, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, J Solomon, V Sorín, M Sosebee, N Sotnikova, K Soustruznik, M Souza, NR Stanton, G Steinbrück, RW Stephens, F Stichelbaut, D Stoker, V Stolin, A Stone, DA Stoyanova, M Strauss, M Strovink, L Stutte, A Sznajder, M Talby, W Taylor, S Tentindo-Repond, SM Tripathi, TG Trippe, AS Turcot, PM Tuts, P van Gemmeren, V Vaniev, R Van Kooten, N Varelas, LS Vertogradov, F Villeneuve-Seguier, AA Volkov, AP Vorobiev, HD Wahl, H Wang, ZM Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, H Weerts, A White, JT White, D Whiteson, JA Wightman, DA Wijngaarden, S Willis, SJ Wimpenny, J Womersley, DR Wood, R Yamada, P Yamin, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, K Yip, S Youssef, J Yu, Z Yu, M Zanabria, H Zheng, Z Zhou, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, V Zutshi, EG Zverev, A Zylberstejn

Abstract:

We describe QUAERO, a method that (i) enables the automatic optimization of searches for physics beyond the standard model, and (ii) provides a mechanism for making high energy collider data generally available. We apply QUAERO to searches for standard model WW, ZZ, and t t macro production, to searches for these objects produced through a new heavy resonance, and to the first direct search for W'-->WZ. Through this interface, we make three data sets collected by the D0 experiment at square root of [s] = 1.8 TeV publicly available.

Measurement of CC interactions produced by ${}^8$B solar neutrinos at SNO

Sissa Medialab Srl (2001) 186

Authors:

Art Mc Donald, J Boger, RL Hahn, JK Rowley, M Yeh, I Blevis, F Dalnoki-Veress, J Farine, DR Grant, CK Hargrove, I Levine, K McFarlane, H Mes, C Mifflin, AJ Noble, VM Novikov, M O'Neill, M Shatkay, D Sinclair, N Starinsky, G Milton, B Sur, J Bigu, JHM Cowan, ED Hallman, RU Haq, J Hewett, JG Hykawy, G Jonkmans, S Luoma, A Roberge, E Saettler, MH Schwendener, H Seifert, R Tafirout, CJ Virtue, YD Chan, X Chen, MCP Isaac, KT Lesko, AD Marino, EB Norman, CE Okada, AWP Poon, A Schuelke, AR Smith, RG Stokstad, TJ Bowles, SJ Brice, MR Dragowsky, MM Fowler, A Goldschmidt, A Hamer, A Hime, Klaus Kirch, GG Miller, P Thornewell, JB Wilhelmy, JM Wouters, JD Anglin, M Bercovitch, WF Davidson, RS Storey, JC Barton, S Biller, RA Black, RJ Boardman, MG Bowler, J Cameron, BT Cleveland, X Dai, G Doucas, J Dunmore, H Fergani, AP Ferraris, K Frame, H Heron, NA Jelley, AB Knox, M Lay, W Locke, J Lyon, S Majerus, N McCauley, G McGregor, M Moorhead, M Omori, NW Tanner, RK Taplin, M Thorman, PT Trent, DL Wark, N West, J Wilson, R Kouzes, MM Lowry, E Bonvin, MG Boulay, M Chen, ETH Clifford, Y Dai, FA Duncan, ED Earle, Hans C Evans, GT Ewan, RJ Ford, AL Hallin, PJ Harvey, R Heaton, JD Hepburn, C Jillings, HW Lee, JR Leslie, HB Mak, AB McDonald, W McLatchie, BA Moffat, TJ Radcliffe, BC Robertson, P Skensved, S Gil, J Heise, RL Helmer, RJ Komar, T Kutter, CW Nally, HS Ng, YI Tserkovnyak, CE Waltham, RC Allen, G Buhler, HH Chen, TC Andersen, K Cameron, MC Chon, P Jagam, J Karn, J Law, IT Lawson, RW Ollerhead, JJ Simpson, N Tagg, J-X Wang, EW Beier, DF Cowen, ED Frank, W Frati, WJ Heintzelman, PT Keener, JR Klein, CCM Kyba, DS McDonald, MS Neubauer, FM Newcomer, SM Oser, VL Rusu, R Van Berg, P Wittich, QR Ahmad, MC Browne, TV Bullard, TH Burritt, GA Cox, PJ Doe, CA Duba, SR Elliott, JV Germani, AA Hamian, R Hazama, KM Heeger, M Howe, R Meijer Drees, JL Orrell, RGH Robertson, KK Schaffer, MWE Smith, TD Steiger, JF Wilkerson, Richard G Van de Water

Status of the LBL oscillation experiments MINOS and OPERA

Sissa Medialab Srl (2001) 194

Measurement of the ratio of differential cross sections for W and Z boson production as a function of transverse momentum in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 517:3-4 (2001) 299-308

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, A Abdesselam, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, SN Ahmed, GD Alexeev, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, Y Arnoud, MM Baarmand, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, F Beaudette, M Begel, A Belyaev, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, A Besson, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, G Blazey, S Blessing, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, K Bos, A Brandt, R Breedon, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, F Canelli, W Carvalho, D Casey, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, J Cochran, L Coney, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, S Crépé-Renaudin, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, GA Davis, K Davis, K De, SJ de Jong, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, S Doulas, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, S Duensing, L Duflot, SR Dugad

Abstract:

We report on a measurement of the ratio of the differential cross sections for W and Z boson production as a function of transverse momentum in proton-antiproton collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV. This measurement uses data recorded by the DØ detector at the Fermilab Tevatron in 1994-1995. It represents the first investigation of a proposal that ratios between W and Z observables can be calculated reliably using perturbative QCD, even when the individual observables are not. Using the ratio of differential cross sections reduces both experimental and theoretical uncertainties, and can therefore provide smaller overall uncertainties in the measured mass and width of the W boson than current methods used at hadron colliders. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Search for single top quark production at DØ using neural networks

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 517:3-4 (2001) 282-294

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, A Abdesselam, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, SN Ahmed, GD Alexeev, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, Y Arnoud, MM Baarmand, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, M Begel, A Belyaev, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, A Besson, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, G Blazey, S Blessing, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, EE Boos, F Borcherding, K Bos, A Brandt, R Breedon, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, F Canelli, W Carvalho, D Casey, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, J Cochran, L Coney, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, S Crépé-Renaudin, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, GA Davis, K Davis, K De, SJ de Jong, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G di Loreto, S Doulas, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, S Duensing

Abstract:

We present a search for electroweak production of single top quarks in ≈90 pb-1 of data collected with the DØ detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. Using arrays of neural networks to separate signals from backgrounds, we set upper limits on the cross sections of 17 pb for the s-channel process pp̄ → tb + X, and 22 pb for the t-channel process pp̄ → tqb + X, both at the 95% confidence level. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.